Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Princeton is the last of the big eastern colleges to adopt the entrance requirements of the College Board...
...Mediaeval," and that is exactly the word. The spirit, the quaint vigor, the broad underlined humor of the situations mark it so for the spectator, even if he has his eyes shut. Robert Edmond Jones '10 has dressed the play and players in the colorful riot of an eastern bazaar. The very rags of the beggars have been schemed with an artist...
...recent meeting of the Intercollegiate Music Council in New York, arrangements were made for the annual competition between the glee clubs of the various eastern colleges. The meet will be held in Carnegie Hall, New York, on Saturday, February 26, 1916. Five colleges, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania State; with a possible addition of Princeton as the sixth, will compete...
...only be the briefest. And the one or two extra days allowed by the Office is not enough to remedy the evil,--even if consistency may be admitted in assuming that western men can afford to miss a few hours instruction the omission of which would be fatal to eastern...
Longer recesses are allowed at other eastern institutions. Yale and Dartmouth allow 18 days each, Princeton has 16 days, and Cornell and Williams each 15. The University would be well satisfied with two full weeks, from December 20 to January 2, inclusive; this would allow three Sunday's making 15 days in all. Only three more days of actual work would be omitted,--two hours for some courses, and one hour for others. And no one would murmur at somewhat increased assignments to make up the loss...